Service Mesh Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Sun, May 17, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Service Mesh Engineer is a full-time remote position focused on designing, deploying, and operating service mesh platforms, primarily Istio and Linkerd, to ensure secure and reliable service-to-service communication within Kubernetes environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and operate service mesh platforms across multi-cluster Kubernetes environments
  • Implement mTLS, traffic management policies, and observability for mesh traffic
  • Collaborate with SRE, platform, and security teams on mesh policy and incident response
Required Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
  • Five or more years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking roles
  • Hands-on experience operating Istio or Linkerd in production
  • Strong understanding of Envoy proxy internals and Kubernetes networking
  • Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation

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